![]() Pic Conley was my dad's best friend, and so was Meekaaeel Muhammad who was the writer for Kool & The Gang, and they'd always hang around the house, so there was always musical influence there. I was really young, watching them in there and getting to see them come into the club and perform. KERRI CHANDLER: Well my grandmother's cousin was Lena Horne, so it was there! My grandfather was a singer and introduced me to a lot of people, and my dad was a DJ, and he introduced me to Surface and Kool & The Gang in the studio. JOE MUGGS: To begin, where was your first contact with music? Were your family musical? He was treated like a king by the young audience there, but in person he is genial, open and extraordinarily laid back. I met the genial 44-year-old at Shoreditch House in London, a couple of days after he had played records embellished with live keyboards for over eight hours at the XOYO club. ![]() While other DJs of his vintage play to older crowds or are treated as revivalists, he remains plugged into cutting-edge clubs from Berlin to Ibiza, and is a direct influence on the youngest dance producers working today as well as retaining his original audience. ![]() His style is exceptionally musical, taking rich influences from soul and jazz and heavy on the use of “real” instruments and singers – but he has never shied away from playing the most out-there techno too, and it's his ability to combine the sense of sophisticated classicism with new technological and stylistic developments, the familiar with the strange, which has in part kept him on top of the game for so long. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |